Saturday, June 9, 2012

Irrevocabile

This poem comes from the Emblemata amatoria (1611) of Pieter Cornelisz Hooft (1581-1626). You can find the book online at the Emblem Project Utrecht.

IrrevocabileProtinus intrabis, si tangas limen Amoris;Pertinet ad scopulum missa sagitta suum.
The vocabulary is keyed to the DCC Latin Vocabulary list. There are only three words in this poem that are not on the DCC list:

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